exactly what i mean. we have 1 in our company. it is used for high end images starage in diff file formats (mainly HDRI). current total setup was about 4TB connected thru fiber, HBA's etc. the performance it give's us is what matters most (redunduncy of course in level 5). we also have a NAS built around barebone systems, totaling to 2TB+ used as a streaming medi server for now (still high end hardware on it, 2 way opteron multicore, 8GB of ram, a nice sata controller (MegaRAID from LSI)). The price range is soooo far from SAN. Do the math, $30,000++ for the SAN under $2,000 for the NAS. all i can say is its cool.
--- Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > olap kurin wrote: > > SAN deployment speaks money, a big budget. If > those > > listed below are the only requirements and will > not go > > to TB (terabyte) in size, NAS is the way to go. > The > > cost of SAN is to much high compared to NAS. take > this > > too: SAN technicalities, deployment, > administration. > > Not just in terms of size of data, but also of > performance and > reliability. Typical SAN setups use FibreChannel > interfaces with > multi-gigabit bandwidth and very fast and highly > reliable hot-swappable > RAIDed disk arrays. The lowest end offering of this > type that I've ever > deployed is already 500 GB expandable to 2 TB in the > future, direct > attached fiber and RAID 5. Cost: PhP 250,000+. > > -- > General purpose money is what allows people to trade > tracts of rain > forest for Coca-Cola. > http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
